A week after closing its $7.4 billion deal to buy Sun, Oracle officials have shut down Darkstar, a 10-year-old Sun Labs project designed to create the back-end infrastructure for massively multiplayer online games. The shutting down of Darkstar was announced on the projects community site, though because it is open source, some were hopeful that the project could find a home elsewhere.
– With Sun Microsystems now in the fold, Oracle officials are in the
process of deciding which Sun projects to continue and which to cancel.
Suns Project Darkstar, an open-source effort to
design a more scalable, flexible and easier-to-program architecture for
massively multiplayer online games, i…